Re: Set focus on NSView in an NSMenuItem

FROM : Peter Ammon
DATE : Fri Jan 04 21:30:37 2008

On Jan 4, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Hendrik Holtmann wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I got another question regarding the new setView method in Leopard.
> Let's assume I set the view for an NSMenuItem to myView. myView 
> contains an NSTextField. Now when I open the NSMenu I want to set 
> the focus on this textfield, so the user can directly enter some 
> text without having to click on the control first (like it works in 
> the spotlight menu). How can I achieve that? I know how to call 
> keyOrderAndFront and setFirstRespinder for NSWindows but how can I 
> do this with an NSMenu. Setting the firstresponder for myView to 
> the NSTextField does not help unfortunately.


Probably the easiest approach would be to override 
viewDidMoveToWindow on the view that will be in the menu, and from 
within it call [[self window] makeFirstResponder:self];. 
makeFirstResponder is one of a very few methods that is safe to call 
on the menu window.

-Peter